{"id":585,"date":"2018-03-31T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:25:14","slug":"coming-to-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Coming To The End Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 11:15 AM to get syrup into the finishing pan.&nbsp; Syrup was finished and filtered by 1:00 PM.&nbsp; Done with bottling and cleanup by 1:50 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Then headed out to collect.&nbsp; Tonight the forecast is 18.&nbsp; Any sap will freeze.&nbsp; Get it while its liquid.&nbsp; We hoped for a tank full, 225 gal, but ended up with 165 gal.&nbsp; A few running well, but many are dry.&nbsp; &nbsp;The taps are out over a month so dry taps are expected.&nbsp; But with a low of 23 the other night and sunny yesterday we should have more sap.&nbsp; Since we didn&#8217;t its a signal we are coming to the end of the season.&nbsp; &nbsp;We could be surprised because we get the freeze\/thaw pattern this coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Planning to begin cooking early tomorrow.&nbsp; &nbsp;We have plans for Easter dinner at Noon and want to be done cooking by 11:00 AM.&nbsp; We should be able to meet that if we get into the woods by 6:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>No snow last night.&nbsp; Lite rain started by 8:00 AM this morning.&nbsp; Cloudy and windy.&nbsp; Did reach low 40s before the wind shifted to the North and temperature dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the farmhouse by 6:15 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 11:15 AM to get syrup into the finishing pan.&nbsp; Syrup was finished and filtered by 1:00 PM.&nbsp; Done with bottling and cleanup by 1:50 PM. Then headed out to collect.&nbsp; Tonight the forecast is 18.&nbsp; Any sap will freeze.&nbsp; Get it while its liquid.&nbsp; We hoped for a tank full, 225 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-season-101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}